Crossword clues for elevenses
elevenses
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context British English) A snack that is similar to afternoon tea, but eaten in the late morning.
Wikipedia
Elevenses is a short break taken at around 11a.m. to consume a drink or snack of some sort. The name and details vary between countries.
Usage examples of "elevenses".
They had known he was coming ever since the flag-lieutenant had brought a Baltic pilot aboard, together with orders for Captain Draper - the news, coming by way of the Captain's steward, had spread through the sloop in rather less than two minutes - and although many of the Ariels were landsmen or boys there were quite enough man-of-war's men aboard to tell them of Lucky Jack Aubrey's reputation as a fighting captain, while the three or four who had sailed with him magnified it extremely: he ate fire for breakfast, elevenses, dinner and supper.
As the time for elevenses rolled around he beached the dinghy on one of these and brewed up coffee under a taxodium all hung with moss.